For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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